The dawning of 1862, during the American Civil War, appeared a bleak one for the Union cause. To gain a complete and final victory, the North had the vast and heavy burden of invading and ...

In essence, Smith s case is that the strategic importance of Grant s capture of Forts Henry and Heinman has tended to be overlooked in comparison to the capture of the more impressive Fort Donelson, ...

It would become his calling card, not backing down. Once Grant was brought East, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee faced the ...

GRANT will wait for them until noon' and at ... and I have only time to say that the siege began this morning at Fort Donelson, about 8 o'clock, the sole gunboat taking part being the Conestoga.

Grant combined what he had learned with his own considerable talents to win an impressive string of battlefield victories. He made his reputation in Tennessee, at Fort Donelson and at the Battle ...

After this battle Grant and Foote moved east to attack Fort Donelson. At Fort Donelson, the Union forces met greater resistance due to the fort being better situated that Fort Henry. The ...

In February 1862, Union troops commanded by General Ulysses S. Grant attacked Fort Donelson, a major Confederate position. When the officer commanding the fort realized he could not prevail ...

Shortly after the Civil War started in 1861, Grant once again became a soldier. As a battlefield commander, he won the Union's first major victory, capturing Fort Donelson in Tennessee and ...

The unconditional surrender of Fort Donelson was the North's first major ... battle and explores the friendship between Union General Grant and Confederate General Simon Buckner.